{ "HubID": "4154", "Date": "4/6/2024", "HubTags": [ "External Platform Posts", "Future Map Forward Guidance", "Future Map" ], "Contacts": "", "Companies": "", "File": "", "Image": "4154__Image_URL.jpg", "Summary": "
These charts look at the mindset and future outcome expectations among U.S. 12th graders over time, grouped by generation (baby boomers, Gen x, Millennials, Gen Z).
We see dramatic changes with Gen Z, which makes sense given that we are at the end of an era that is characterized but significant stress and conflict.
But the interesting observation is Gen X in the 1990s. I am Gen X and recall pessimism that arose as a result of the 1991 Gulf War. Could there have been pessimism also surrounding the fall of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact alliance? I remember those events more optimistically.